On 10/03/17 10:10, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote: > On 17/10/03 13:48, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am running currently constantly into the problem that I do not >> have enough space left for installing packages and today even >> upgrading a snapshot failed because I had not enough space left. Is >> there a way to resize partitions? I guess probably not because >> there is no volume manager, right? I used originally the suggested >> layout by the installer. Any idea what could fill up the space on >> /? The partition is only 1GB in size and if I see it correctly only >> the base-system is installed there. Did base grew with the latest >> snapshots? > > I found the problem. It sat in front of the keyboard m) At some point > I created apparently by accident a huge file in /dev and that ate up > all the space in / One problem solved. Now to my other space-problems > where resizing would be a solution but maybe I just need to tidy up > more.
and that's one reason we tell you to partition the heck out of your system. Best/worst story I heard along those lines was someone who typoed their backup script, and instead of writing to tape, wrote to a FILE in /dev. Unfortunately, they used one big partition, so there was plenty of space for this file...but of course, if the bad thing happened, the tape was blank. If you fill a 100M root partition, you clean up junk you left laying around. If you fill a 1G root partition, something went horribly wrong, and you find and fix the problem. Enlarging is NOT the answer there. Disks are stupid big these days. You can't get too small a disk for many applications. Leave most of your disk unpartitioned, and you can go back and "enlarge" anything you want at a later time (well...'cept for root. and 1G is a HUGE root partition). Just create a new partition, copy everything from the old to the new, change fstab, reboot. Nick.
